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That speaks much worse about herself than it does about Coinbase.

kthxbye123 6y ago
I think quite the opposite. We give far, far too much cultural deference to megalomaniacal executives and petty business tyrants; it’s refreshing to see them called out on their bullshit. More refreshing would be seeing more CEOs, founders, and VCs forced to cede control to employees, but I’ll take what we can get.
- loco5niner 6y ago
  I don't see how saying "let's focus on work" leads you so call someone megalomaniacal.
xvector 6y ago
Seriously, I can’t believe grown adults say stuff like this. So much professionalism from the “Director of Engineering at GitHub,” saying that people who don’t share her perspective on politics in the workplace are having “meltdowns.”
pm90 6y ago
Why does it speak worse of her?
- jejeyyy77 6y ago
  She comes off, to me at least, as: Unprofessional, ideological, dogmatic, crazy-lady
  - pm90 6y ago
    What specifically did she say that made her come off that way to you?
    - tha0x5 6y ago
      Spend a few minutes scrolling through her Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1307109690917224449 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1307109690917224449 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306403761603051521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306403761603051521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306280514035179521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306280514035179521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1303264312354512896 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1303264312354512896 And on, and on, and on. She tweets so much it's kind of sad. Practically none of her tweets have anything to do with actual engineering. It's all identity politics and other leftist nonsense.
      - pm90 6y ago
        I didn't find any of those tweets unprofessional. I found them to be a genuinely interesting perspective on social issues that I am interested in. I am not sure how that's unprofessional of her. If you think its "leftist nonsense", then that's just your opinion. She is entitled to tweet whatever she wants to from her personal twitter account. Do you think its reasonable for her to follow your idea of how a Director of Engineering should tweet?
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        tha0x5 6y ago
        >I didn't find any of those tweets unprofessional. "There was a lot of work done to brainwash African people to believe that the white man had the monopoly on truth & that he was favored by God. We need to understand the way Christianity has been used to dominate African people, land and resources." Spouting that nonsense is absolutely unprofessional, and ahistorical. >I found them to be a genuinely interesting perspective on social issues that I am interested in. That speaks more about you than anything. >I am not sure how that's unprofessional of her. I just highlighted how. Making crazy claims about a religion is accepted in no professional environment I've ever been in, and I've worked in SV for a long time. >She is entitled to tweet whatever she wants to from her personal twitter account. No one said otherwise, you're strawman-ing really hard now. You specifically asked for things that "she [said] that made her come off that way to you?" I provided examples. The fact that they came from her personal Twitter account is immaterial. She links her Twitter account on her LinkedIn, web page, etc., so, it's not specifically a personal account. >Do you think its reasonable for her to follow your idea of how a Director of Engineering should tweet? It's not my idea, it's generally accepted that spouting racist, anti-Christian rhetoric on Twitter is unbecoming of any leader. And those tweets were just from September...
- young_unixer 6y ago
  The part about being pressured to post the statement about BLM may be true. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. But then she starts to over-speculate about Armstrong's emotions without any basis and tries to frame him as an unstable person. All of this simply because Armstrong posted about his company's mission. How would she feel if talking about her company's mission resulted in execs from other companies tweeting about her "having a meltdown", simply because she has a different political perspective?
aixi 6y ago
Yep. I didn't know who she was before this twitter thread, so the impression it gave off was a typical teenager trying to burn someone.
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I think quite the opposite. We give far, far too much cultural deference to megalomaniacal executives and petty business tyrants; it’s refreshing to see them called out on their bullshit. More refreshing would be seeing more CEOs, founders, and VCs forced to cede control to employees, but I’ll take what we can get.

loco5niner 6y ago
I don't see how saying "let's focus on work" leads you so call someone megalomaniacal.

xvector 6y ago

Seriously, I can’t believe grown adults say stuff like this. So much professionalism from the “Director of Engineering at GitHub,” saying that people who don’t share her perspective on politics in the workplace are having “meltdowns.”

pm90 6y ago

Why does it speak worse of her?

jejeyyy77 6y ago
She comes off, to me at least, as: Unprofessional, ideological, dogmatic, crazy-lady
- pm90 6y ago
  What specifically did she say that made her come off that way to you?
  - tha0x5 6y ago
    Spend a few minutes scrolling through her Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1307109690917224449 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1307109690917224449 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306403761603051521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306403761603051521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306280514035179521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1306280514035179521 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1303264312354512896 https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1303264312354512896 And on, and on, and on. She tweets so much it's kind of sad. Practically none of her tweets have anything to do with actual engineering. It's all identity politics and other leftist nonsense.
    - pm90 6y ago
      I didn't find any of those tweets unprofessional. I found them to be a genuinely interesting perspective on social issues that I am interested in. I am not sure how that's unprofessional of her. If you think its "leftist nonsense", then that's just your opinion. She is entitled to tweet whatever she wants to from her personal twitter account. Do you think its reasonable for her to follow your idea of how a Director of Engineering should tweet?
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      - tha0x5 6y ago
        >I didn't find any of those tweets unprofessional. "There was a lot of work done to brainwash African people to believe that the white man had the monopoly on truth & that he was favored by God. We need to understand the way Christianity has been used to dominate African people, land and resources." Spouting that nonsense is absolutely unprofessional, and ahistorical. >I found them to be a genuinely interesting perspective on social issues that I am interested in. That speaks more about you than anything. >I am not sure how that's unprofessional of her. I just highlighted how. Making crazy claims about a religion is accepted in no professional environment I've ever been in, and I've worked in SV for a long time. >She is entitled to tweet whatever she wants to from her personal twitter account. No one said otherwise, you're strawman-ing really hard now. You specifically asked for things that "she [said] that made her come off that way to you?" I provided examples. The fact that they came from her personal Twitter account is immaterial. She links her Twitter account on her LinkedIn, web page, etc., so, it's not specifically a personal account. >Do you think its reasonable for her to follow your idea of how a Director of Engineering should tweet? It's not my idea, it's generally accepted that spouting racist, anti-Christian rhetoric on Twitter is unbecoming of any leader. And those tweets were just from September...
young_unixer 6y ago
The part about being pressured to post the statement about BLM may be true. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. But then she starts to over-speculate about Armstrong's emotions without any basis and tries to frame him as an unstable person. All of this simply because Armstrong posted about his company's mission. How would she feel if talking about her company's mission resulted in execs from other companies tweeting about her "having a meltdown", simply because she has a different political perspective?

aixi 6y ago

Yep. I didn't know who she was before this twitter thread, so the impression it gave off was a typical teenager trying to burn someone.

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